Jurassic Park Got It Wrong: Research Indicates Raptors Didn’t Hunt in Packs
Turns out, you really can’t believe everything you see in the movies. A new University of Wisconsin Oshkosh analysis of raptor teeth published in the…
Turns out, you really can’t believe everything you see in the movies. A new University of Wisconsin Oshkosh analysis of raptor teeth published in the…
Researchers have discovered an ancient plant species whose reproductive biology captures the evolution from one to two spore sizes – an essential transition to the…
Adalatherium identified as part of enigmatic Southern Hemisphere mammalian group that lived at the time of dinosaurs. Several years ago, Guillermo Rougier, Ph.D., professor in…
International team of researchers, led by David Krause, senior paleontologist at Denver Museum of Nature & Science and longtime Stony Brook U. professor, discover 66-million-year-old…
Paleontologist and National Geographic Explorer finds unique swimming adaptations in a dinosaur. Scientists have long opposed the idea that dinosaurs lived in aquatic habitats. Now,…
University of Tübingen researchers uncover dental traits revealing genetic relationships in humans, serving as proxy for DNA. Researchers at the University of Tübingen have shown…
Dads emerged to reap the benefits of partnerships with females and other males, team of anthropologists and economists argue. Humans differ from other primates in…
A new way of looking at marine evolution over the past 540 million years has shown that levels of biodiversity in our oceans have remained…
Biologists have long hoped to understand the nature of the earliest living organisms on Earth. If they could, they might then be able to say…
The Kem Kem beds in Morocco are famous for the spectacular fossils found there, including at least four large-bodied non-avian theropods, several large-bodied pterosaurs, and…
An international team of researchers has put together a new image of Neanderthals based on the genes Neanderthals left in the DNA of modern humans…
International team of researchers traces the history of brain evolution from tyrannosaurs to modern crows. An international team of evolutionary biologists and paleontologists have reconstructed…
Bats do a lot of good for the world — they pollinate plants, they eat disease-carrying insects, and they help disperse seeds that help with…
Scientists have discovered an earlier origin of the human language pathway in the brain, pushing back its evolutionary origin by at least 20 million years….
Showy peacock feathers, extravagant elk antlers, and powerful crayfish claws are just a few examples of the ostentatious animal extremes used to compete for and…
Analysis of 13,000-year-old fossils suggests photonic nanostructures in insects, which create colorful iridescent colors, may have originated as a means of camouflage. Researchers from Yale-NUS…
The discovery helps date the transatlantic migration to about 34 million years ago, around the time a major drop in sea level would have made…
Study pinpoints minimum survivable size of Jurassic crocodiles. Taking the evolutionary plunge into water and abandoning land for good, as some crocodilian ancestors did nearly…